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Old 23-03-04, 18:55
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Default Ford Singapore

J.B. Wearne owned a company WEARNE'S, Bukit Timah Road, Bukit Timah, Singapore which was established possibly pre-WW1. They originally assembled Canadian-supplied Ford Ts* and were an associate in effect of Ford of Canada subsidiaries in Bombay, Calcutta and Colombo. So, the definitive answer seems to be that it was a private company that acted as a local assembler of Canadian and probably British Fords. They in turn supplied the region including the NEI. I would have thought that there was a representative of some sorts in Batavia who imported Singapore-assembled Fords.


*Ford of Canada had an exclusive deal with Henry to supply Fords to the British Empire save for the British Isles from 1907.
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